Pope Leo, Cameroon Convergence and BRICS+

The Roman Catholic geographies of the globe are vast. In Madrid, Pedro Sanchez called for the arrest of Benjamin Netanyahu. Rome’s message also echoed in the Hispanosphere and Lusosphere of Latin America, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil and Cuba. The twenty percent of US citizens who speak Spanish also overlap with the twenty percent who profess Catholicism.US president Trump has published images of himself as a divinity while US vice-president JD. Vance, a recent convert to Catholicism, has brazenly ‘clarified’ the Pope’s message for his followers. While the United States is transitioning from hegemony to imperium, the Donroe doctrine seeks dominion of the Western Hemisphere from the Arctic to the Antarctic.For almost all emerging economies of the Global South, the epicentres of global security and economic instability are in Washington and Jerusalem. For the Global Majority, implementation of American imperial design displays all the hallmarks of colonialism and late 19th century imperialism. President Trump’s imperial revivalism or “golden age’ is a repeat of past aggressions implemented via territorial expansion, resource acquisition, technological determinism, economic assaults and supply chain interruption.RELATED ARTICLES AND PODCASTS Get full access to The Chair at theaseanchair.substack.com/subscribe